Jim Reagan, chief financial officer at Vencore, brings nearly two decades of financial leadership to his role at the technology services contractor and oversees the company’s fiscal support functions. Vencore, formerly known as The SI Organization, closed its potential $165 million purchase of QinetiQ’s U.S. services and solutions group in May …

A Research and Markets report says Northrop Grumman, Qinetiq and iRobot represent more than 50 percent of the global market share in unmanned ground vehicles. The worlwide UGV market has an estimated value of $1.51 billion in 2014 and is projected to reach $8.26 billion in value by 2020, the …

Greg Barsby, formerly head of KBR‘s defense and government services business in the Asia-Pacific region, has joined QinetiQ as managing director of its Australian segment and successor to Alan Woolford, who will return to the U.K. QinetiQ said Monday Barsby will begin work for his new role in October and will be based at the company’s office in Canberra. …

Huntington Ingalls Industries‘ shipbuilding division will use QinetiQ‘s Paramarine Ship and Submersible Design Software for ship design and construction work on U.S. Navy aircraft carriers and carry out research and development in submarine systems. QinetiQ said Monday HII’s Newport News Shipbuilding will deploy Paramarine to function as naval architectural software and use Team Paramarine License for multiple users. …

Sarah Kenny, managing director for QinetiQ’s maritime arm, said the company has won a contract to provide British scientists with fresh insight into defense strategies against small boat threats. The work will involve testing the threat response capabilities of the U.K. Defense Science and Technology Laboratory’s sensor system at sea, …

Qinetiq has unveiled a new line of surveillance systems for mounted onboard aircraft that Jeremy Ward, managing director for the company’s C4ISR business, says are designed to help security teams with coverage, HSToday reported Wednesday. Kylie Bull writes the ASX family, launched at the Farnborough Airshow, works to use signal processing technology for command and …

QinetiQ announced that it has signed a contract with Autonomous Surface Vehicles to supply and support operations of autonomous surface target vessels. The partnership is part of QinetiQ’s new Marine Surface Target Service, which offers targets for ‘real’ test environments, evaluations and training. John Anderson, Managing Director for Weapons at …

QinetiQ North America announced Wednesday they are the recipients of the 2014 James S. Cogswell Outstanding Industrial Security Achievement Award, Robotics Tomorrow reported. The award is presented each year by the Defense Security Service, an agency responsible for looking out for some of the nation’s classified assets, who has tailored …

QinetiQ’s space division has won a contract from the European Space Agency to develop a soft berthing system for spacecraft to dock at the International Space Station. The company will design and build a model for the International Berthing Docking Mechanism through 2015 before ground testing of the work begins, …

Michael Harper, deputy chairman and senior independent director at QinetiQ, will succeed the retiring Noreen Doyle as as chairperson of the board of directors’ remuneration committee next month. QinetiQ Chairman Mark Elliott thanked Doyle for her leadership in international business and corporate finance and noted her contributions as a non-executive director …

QinetiQ will continue to help maintain hardware components the company developed for the International Space Station’s Columbus module under a contract extension through the end of this year. The company said Tuesday that it has also been working with Airbus to support the QinetiQ-developed scientific instruments for research inside the module. Airbus acts as …

Capgemini, IBM and QinetiQ have partnered with British information technology training group E-Skills to offer cybersecurity apprenticeships across the U.K., Computing.co.uk reported Thursday. Sooraj Shah writes the alliance seeks to hire and train more than 100 apprentices by this summer. Other program partners include Airbus, BT Group and Atos. “It …

QinetiQ’s space division has won a $1.5 million contract from the European Space Agency to develop a prototype unit for space water treatment. The prototype will be built to pioneer a system for recycling urine and waste water for future space missions, QinetiQ said March 10. Sanjay Razdan, managing director …

QinetiQ North America has been awarded a five-year, $16 million contract to provide engineering, program management and technical support services to a U.S. Navy battlefield science and technology organization. QNA will lead a team of eight contractors to support work in the Office of Naval Research’s expeditionary maneuver warfare and combating terrorism …

Saudi Arabia’s national guard ministry plans to award a contract in September 2014 for maintenance work on 60 helicopters stationed in the country’s capital of Riyadh. QinetiQ North America said Thursday it is a member of a Northrop Grumman-led team competing for that contract and additional members include the PAE-owned subsidiary …